Job Description

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Base Location: Bangalore

Minimum Qualification: Graduate and above

Preferred Years of Experience: 2 to 5 Years of relevant experience in buying /merchandising/ inventory management

Preferred Skills: SAP, MS Excel

Key Result Areas:

Assist in Merchandise assortment plan for all stores

• Create appropriate buying plan for assigned category as per Sales targets
• Set ARP targets for product categories
• Create Option plan and conduct depth analysis
• Formulate Stock to Sale plan for a season \xe2\x80\x93 End of Month / Bill of Materials
• Open to Buy calculation.
• Create appropriate buying plan.

Provide inputs for Monthly Target setting in each category.

• Breaking up of Monthly targets into product category
• Target Vs achievement
• Merchandise plan report
• Product performance Like to Like

Tracking Inventory Management Process

• Ensure Ideal stock cover for each product category is maintained
• Dormancy within specified norms
• Pullback within specified norms
• Sell thru reports on Excel for Week1, week2 sales
• Photo Sell Through report

Being a custodian in formulating the Stock & sale plan

• Product category wise dispatch plan
• Planned Vs actual
• Allocation plan for each store as per dispatch plan and size wise analysis
• Tracking allocation vs. actual dispatches

Market Intelligence

• New launches (competition product / window / schemes)
• Competition Mapping
• Training (Merchandise, Product & Visual Merchandising related)

Track the Core Business Contribution

• Monitoring to enhance the category contribution percentage of total business of Like to Like basis
• Identifying new designs to be added to this category

Help in creation of Retail Design Brief

• Designing a retail brief to design \xe2\x80\x93 option grid & learning of past season

Integrated Go To Market (IGTM)

• Planning for a successful IGTM story along with Visual Merchandising and design
• Dressing up one key store for the look
• Roll \xe2\x80\x93 out across stores

Integration with space planning

• Working in close co-ordination with retail planner to closely monitor returns from space allocated

Aditya Birla Group